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Test no. 247

Australia in South Africa Test Series - 1st Test
South Africa v Australia

1935/36 season

Played at Kingsmead, Durban, on 14,16,17,18 December 1935 (4-day match)

Result Australia won by 9 wickets


South Africa 1st innings			R	4s	6s
	B Mitchell	b Fleetwood-Smith	19		0
	IJ Siedle	lbw b O'Reilly	31		0
	EAB Rowan	c & b Grimmett	66		0
	KG Viljoen	b Fleetwood-Smith	4		0
	AD Nourse	b McCormick	30		0
	HF Wade	b O'Reilly	31		0
	EL Dalton	st Oldfield b Fleetwood-Smith	4		0
	ACB Langton	b Grimmett	0	0	0
	F Nicholson	not out	16		0
	RJ Crisp	b Fleetwood-Smith	35		0
	JB Robertson	b O'Reilly	9		0
	Extras	(b 1, lb 2)	3

	Total	(all out; 114.2 overs)	248	(2.16 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-45 (Siedle), 2-59 (Mitchell), 3-71 (Viljoen), 4-108 (Nourse), 5-168 (Wade), 6-185 (Dalton), 7-186 (Langton), 8-187 (Rowan), 9-234 (Crisp), 10-248 (Robertson)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
EL McCormick	15	4	50	1	3.33
SJ McCabe	10	1	28	0	2.80
CV Grimmett	28	10	48	2	1.71
WJ O'Reilly	33.2	17	55	3	1.65
LO Fleetwood-Smith	28	6	64	4	2.28


Australia 1st innings			R	4s	6s
	WA Brown	c Langton b Robertson	66		0
	JHW Fingleton	c Nicholson b Crisp	2	0	0
	SJ McCabe	c Rowan b Langton	149		0
	LS Darling	c Viljoen b Crisp	60		0
	VY Richardson	b Langton	2	0	0
	AG Chipperfield	b Crisp	109		0
	WAS Oldfield	lbw b Langton	0	0	0
	WJ O'Reilly	c Rowan b Robertson	11		1
	CV Grimmett	c Nicholson b Robertson	15		0
	EL McCormick	not out	2	0	0
	LO Fleetwood-Smith	b Langton	1	0	0
	Extras	(b 5, lb 2, w 1, nb 4)	12

	Total	(all out; 162.2 overs)	429	(2.64 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-12 (Fingleton), 2-173 (Brown), 3-269 (McCabe), 4-277 (Richardson), 5-299 (Darling), 6-299 (Oldfield), 7-329 (O'Reilly), 8-412 (Grimmett), 9-428 (Chipperfield), 10-429 (Fleetwood-Smith)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Crisp	36	7	87	3	2.41
ACB Langton	48.2	10	113	4	2.33
JB Robertson	55	11	143	3	2.60
EL Dalton	6	0	25	0	4.16
B Mitchell	17	2	49	0	2.88


South Africa 2nd innings			R	4s	6s
	B Mitchell	run out	19		0
	IJ Siedle	b Grimmett	59		1
	EAB Rowan	b Grimmett	49		0
	KG Viljoen	b Fleetwood-Smith	1	0	0
	AD Nourse	c Fingleton b O'Reilly	91		0
	HF Wade	lbw b O'Reilly	11		0
	EL Dalton	c Darling b Grimmett	5		0
	ACB Langton	not out	12		0
	F Nicholson	b O'Reilly	0	0	0
	RJ Crisp	b O'Reilly	16		1
	JB Robertson	c Richardson b O'Reilly	9		0
	Extras	(b 8, lb 1, nb 1)	10

	Total	(all out; 115 overs)	282	(2.45 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-65 (Mitchell), 2-86 (Siedle), 3-89 (Viljoen), 4-207 (Rowan), 5-233 (Nourse), 6-242 (Wade), 7-242 (Dalton), 8-242 (Nicholson), 9-263 (Crisp), 10-282 (Robertson)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
EL McCormick	6	0	26	0	4.33
SJ McCabe	2	0	5	0	2.50
CV Grimmett	52	20	83	3	1.59
WJ O'Reilly	17	5	49	5	2.88
LO Fleetwood-Smith	37	7	101	1	2.72
AG Chipperfield	1	0	8	0	8.00


Australia 2nd innings (target: 102 runs)			R	6s
	WA Brown	c Crisp b Dalton	55	0
	JHW Fingleton	not out	36	0
	SJ McCabe	not out	7	0
	Extras	(b 3, lb 1)	4

	Total	(1 wicket; 36.3 overs)	102	(2.79 runs per over)

Did not bat LS Darling,

VY Richardson, AG Chipperfield,

WAS Oldfield, WJ O'Reilly, CV Grimmett, EL McCormick, LO Fleetwood-Smith

Fall of wickets1-93 (Brown)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Crisp	6	1	10	0	1.66
ACB Langton	9	0	29	0	3.22
JB Robertson	13	4	24	0	1.84
EL Dalton	1.3	0	12	1	8.00
B Mitchell	7	0	23	0	3.28

Toss South Africa, who chose to bat first
Series Australia led the 5-match series 1-0

Test debuts LO Fleetwood-Smith and EL McCormick (Australia); F Nicholson and JB Robertson (South Africa)

Umpires JC Collings and WJ Routledge

Close of play
14 Dec day 1 - Australia 1st innings 0/0 (WA Brown 0*, JHW Fingleton 0*)
15 Dec rest day
16 Dec day 2 - Australia 1st innings 280/4 (LS Darling 51*, AG Chipperfield 2*)
17 Dec day 3 - South Africa 2nd innings 167/3 (EAB Rowan 33*, AD Nourse 48*)
18 Dec day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 102/1 (36.3 ov) - end of match

Match notes

LO Fleetwood-Smith took the wicket of KG Viljoen with his sixth ball in Tests

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